On special
occasions like the Maharaja's birthday or the Maharani's death anniversary there were
feasts with delicacies made of jackfruit and coconut milk. The number of courses ran upto
hundred on these days.

Now, thanks to shortages of foodstuffs, rationing and a general change in attitudes,
feasts are held on a much smaller scale and at longer intervals. Nevertheless, offering of
food or 'prathal' as it is called is still a favourite vazhivadu to the Lord. As the food
offered is considered as prasad, everyone, from pauper to prince, partakes Nay, the food
is even said to possess curative powers in ailments like stomach-ache, ulcer, etc.